Her narrative, drawn from interviews with 150 women who underwent the procedure, reveals the real-world complexities behind women’s choices. Inhorn explores the factors that motivate different individuals to freeze their eggs - including what she describes as a “mating gap” causing a shortage of partners for college-educated women - that run counter to popular assumptions. In a new book, “Motherhood on Ice: The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze Their Eggs” (New York University Press), Yale anthropologist Marcia C. By the end of 2019, more than 36,000 women in the United States used the increasingly popular technology to preserve their eggs and extend their fertility. In 2012, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine lifted the procedure’s experimental label, allowing women to freeze their eggs for non-medical reasons. Initially, the technology was limited to women undergoing chemotherapy or experiencing medical conditions known to cause infertility.
Oocyte vitrification, a method to flash-freeze human eggs so they can be stored for later use, emerged in the early 2000s.
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